New Orleans' Performers for Folklife Festival
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Object Details
- Author
- Spitzer, Nicholas R
- Subject
- Festival of American Folklife
- Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, June 1985.
- Summary
- Chief Charles Taylor from New Orleans leads daily parades at the 1985 Folklife Festival. Taylor belongs to the White Cloud Hunter tribe, a group of black men who dress for Mardi Gras in resplendently stylized garb of Indian warriors.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: June 1985
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1985
- Standard number
- 95-1195
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Taylor, Charles
- African Americans
- Cooks
- Folk festivals
- Mardi Gras
- White Cloud Hunter Tribe
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8401
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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